Derby 165 Loser Awards
Derby 165's theme was
"Scientific Method". As a few people mentioned, this theme was not really demonstrated by most entries. I think Woot set themselves up by inviting people to "just cram a beaker onto a cute fuzzy animal design". I'm not going to try to limit my BLAs to only what is truly on topic but include everything since that really seemed to be Woot's intention. Here's my favorites and yours. As usual, click on the thumbnail to see the full-size shirt and comments on Shirt.Woot.
The "Galapagos" Award
"Darwin's Data" by Josephus is a wonderful sketch and humorous take on the theme. Great work!
The BLAs
Here's the rest of the designs you and I liked. Everyone mentioned today will be getting one of these nifty BestLoser badges in their Shirt.Woot entry comments thread.
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GeekFactor12 says "Love the style of this robot!"
| Mjc613 says "Even if this wasn't one of my suggestions, this would still be a very cool shirt. Math and food - an excellent combination. And best of all - this shirt actually matched the theme."
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A wonderful draftsman style and incredible linework in KDeuce's "x = pb + j".
| SpaceMonkeyDr's "The Price of Progress" has a cool mood and a great monochromatic palette. I suspect the halftones are more than Woot could handle though.
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p.s. The following designs missed out on BLAs for using thumbnails larger than 240x240: "Bee Careful", "Throw the Switch", and "Albert Funkenstein". If you care at all about getting BLAs, please make your thumbnails standard size.
Comments
sexylittlerobot
this derby was really disappointing. why did everyone take it so literally? the best part of the scientific method is that you can apply it to many scenarios in day to day living (although I'm saying this as someone who has to spend all her time rigidly adhering to the steps of it; so maybe I'm biased)
I loved Josephus' design though because keeping your data is imperative; and also because I always find it interesting to contemplate how publishing has changed. The voyage of the Beagle was in the 1830s and he published Origin of Species in 1859. Oh well, maybe next time they'll be a little more specific in defining the derby theme. x.o
ThatRobert
SLR, good idea! I think we would have had a more interesting and more on-topic derby if the theme was "apply the scientific method to everyday life".
